Machinery Cluster

There are approximately 2,075 machinery industry establishments in Ohio employing 84,400 people. North East Ohio has the state’s highest concentration of machinery industry and the Akron region represents a large industry cluster, employing over 6,200 people in more than 210 establishments. The metalworking and machine-making industries of the Akron region have strong ties to the growing polymer production and research, since the University of Akron’s College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering is the only one dedicates to the study of polymers in the world. In the past five years $2.4 billion in private capital was invested in 122 new plants in the Greater Akron Region.

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